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granny
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Granny \Gran"ny\, n. A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.
Granny's bend, or Granny's knot (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, according to OED, most likely a diminutive and contraction of grannam, shortened form of grandame, rather than from grandmother. The sailor's granny knot (by 1803, originally granny's knot, so called because "it is the natural knot tied by women or landsmen" [Smyth, "Sailor's Word-Book," 1867]. Granny Smith apples (1895) named for Maria Ann Smith (d.1870) of Australia, who originated them.
Wiktionary
a. typically or stereotypically old-fashioned, especially in clothing and accessories worn by or associated with elderly women. alt. 1 (context colloquial English) A grandmother. 2 (context colloquial derogatory English) An elderly woman. n. 1 (context colloquial English) A grandmother. 2 (context colloquial derogatory English) An elderly woman.
WordNet
n. the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, grannie, gran]
an old woman
a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure [syn: granny knot]
Wikipedia
Emma Webster, better known as Granny, a co-star of many Sylvester the Cat and Tweety animated shorts throughout the 1950s and 1960s, is a Looney Tunes character that was created by Friz Freleng. Granny is the owner of Tweety (and more often than not, Sylvester and Hector the Bulldog). Granny's voice was first provided by Bea Benaderet from 1950 through 1955. June Foray later took the role, and voiced the character for close to six decades.
Granny is a female grandparent.
Granny may also refer to:
Fictional characters- Granny (Looney Tunes), a Looney Tunes character
- Granny (Beverly Hillbillies character), a character on The Beverly Hillbillies television series, played by Irene Ryan
- Granny Goodness, a character published by DC Comics
- Granny Weatherwax, a character in by Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
- Granny Smith (My Little Pony), from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
- Granny, a book by Anthony Horowitz
- Granny, a spin-off from the Cuddles and Dimples strip in the British Dandy comic
- Granny (townland), a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
- Granny Smith, a type of apple
- "Granny" (song), a song performed by Dave Matthews Band, popular at their live shows
- Caramel apple granny, a dessert.
- Granny, a wind operated suction fan, to remove smoke more efficiently, on a chimney pot
- Granny (orca) the oldest known orca.
- Granny glasses, wire-framed spectacles with circular lenses, popular in the late 1960s
- Dirty Granny Tales an underground band from Greece
Granny game/match in which one side is soundly defeated while not scoring themselves
Granny, also known as J2, is an orca, or killer whale, estimated by some whale researchers to be 105 years old, which, if correct, would make her the oldest known living orca. Granny had been captured with the rest of her pod in 1967 but was too old at that time for a marine mammal park, so was released. In 1967, Granny was estimated to have been born in 1911.
"Granny" is a song by Virginia-based jam band Dave Matthews Band. Though never released on an official studio album, "Granny" was dropped from the Under the Table and Dreaming sessions. This song was originally intended to be the first single from that album.
The song does not use LeRoi Moore or Boyd Tinsley on their respective instruments because the song is focused around a guitar melody without accompaniment. The song also features very sparse use of Carter Beauford's drumming throughout the main section. However, the final section of the song includes the repetition of the lyrics "Love...Baby..." where many members of the band sing at the same time. The song still remains popular on live setlists to this day and appears on some live albums by the band including Listener Supported, The Central Park Concert and The Gorge. The song is approximately four minutes in length.
This song is one of the most popular regularly played songs of all time. It was played most in 1993 where it was one of the top three most played songs through every consecutive tour for that year. All this promotion was probably because "Granny" was supposed to be the band's first single. Dave Matthews admitted that the band envisioned people walking the streets chanting "LOVE! BABY!", and for a while the crowd did chant at several shows during other songs in the setlist.
Although it was confirmed to be the only unreleased song recorded for Under The Table and Dreaming, it never made it to any other studio albums and is now known for its steady occasional playing. An acoustic version performed by Matthews and Tim Reynolds is included on their album Live at Luther College, recorded in 1996 and released in 1999.
On the 2014 re-release of Under the Table and Dreaming, the deluxe version includes the aforementioned studio version of the song.
Granny is a townland lying within the civil parish of Kilcronaghan, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It lies in the west of the parish on the boundary of the civil parish of Ballynascreen, and is bounded by the townlands of; Calmore, Duntribryan, Moneyshanere, Mormeal, and Tamnyaskey. It wasn't apportioned to any of the London livery companies, being kept as church lands.
The townland is currently part of Tobermore electoral ward of Magherafelt District Council, however in 1926 it was part of Tobermore district electoral division as part of the Maghera division of Magherafelt Rural District. It was also part of the historic barony of Loughinsholin.
The hamlet of Kilross Villas and Kilross Primary School both lie within this townland along the Duntibryan road.
Usage examples of "granny".
Children hardly old enough to be wearing knives, tooeven graybeards and grannies.
The three of them went off across the field after the mules, and then we heard the pistols away off like striking a handful of matches at one time, and Joby still sitting on the seat with his mouth still open and the ends of the cut reins in his hands, and Granny still standing in the wagon with the bent umbrella lifted and hollering at Ringo and me while we jumped out of the wagon and ran across the road.
Bayard and Colonel and Marse John and Granny until it did sound like a company at least, and then hollering at his horse again, and it running back and forth.
Granny lived in a neighborhood of Mogadishu that was a good distance from the market.
Granny standing up in the wagon and beating the five men about their heads and shoulders with the umbrella while they unfastened the traces and cut the harness off the mules with pocket knives.
Granny Anderson used to play the songs from the old Romberg and Victor Herbert operettas on the piano.
But this skin on this lady belly and hips put me in mind of that time Daddy take me to visit my granny in the town, how granny put me on she knee and give me cocoa-tea to drink that she make by grating the cocoa and nutmeg into the hot milk, how granny did wearing a brown velvet dress and I never touch velvet, before neither since, and I just sit there so on granny knee, running my thumb across a little piece of she sleeve over and over again, drinking hot cocoa-tea with plenty condensed milk.
It seemed that the lives of all the Achings revolved around Granny Aching.
Wizard Raspberry was in the kitchen with Granny, who poured the ale, assisted by the Brewers from Little Darlingham.
The one I had in mind was called Lincoln Parradyne Smith the 39th, resident of that same Castle Smith that had so coolly disinvited me to visit, Magician of Rank to the continent of Oklahomah, and surely handy to good Granny Golightly.
Cousin Drusilla was already talking, telling Granny mostly, though it was not about the railroad.
Cousin Drusilla had the nigh horse by the bridle again, and I dragged at them, too, and Granny was standing up in the wagon and beating at the faces with Mrs.
And there were three Grannys taken to their beds in my kingdom, afflicted with what they claimed was epizootics and what I knew was congenital cantankerousness, and that was disrupting the regular conduct of everyday affairs more than was convenient.
Granny Twinsorrel warded my room double, and my nose had grown dulled to the garlic by the time I finally found myself in one of the high hard narrow beds the Lewises considered regulation.
Panglish the First Granny had taught her people, and that I had learned from many boring hours listening to the microtapes while I begged to be let go out and play instead.